Toronto press Coach House Books has won Ontario’s Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, worth $50,000. Coach House won in the organization category, beating out Toronto’s Hot Docs film fest, the Guelph Jazz Festival, and the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, among other nominees. (The Premier’s Award is in its second year, though this was the first for the organization category. Ojibwa artist Ron Noganosh won this year’s $35,000 individual artist prize.)
In an e-mail to Quillblog, Coach House’s Alana Wilcox says the press will spend the windfall thus:
[F]ixing/replacing the Magical Sleeper Chair, a thank-you party for the authors, a series of new broadsides, reprinting several low-on-stock titles and, sexiest of all, paying some bills.
And we’re going to have a big thank-you sale on the website.
Also, we bought a lot of cinnamon rolls this afternoon. And ate them all.
